113: My Balancing Act
Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald
iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 22.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 92 minutes
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On this week's episode, JD tries to balance his new girlfriend and his job as a medical intern. In real life, Zach and Donald speak with Michael Spiller about directing episodes of Scrubs and how he made the move from cinematographer on Sex and the City to directing his first episode of television.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | Man, do we have an exciting show today, Donald Faison? We do have an exciting show today. You know, we promised the people. We promised the listeners that we wouldn't just have stars of the show on that we would bring on crew members. You're totally about to geek out about this. You brought on a director. I am going to geek out. As a fellow director, you're like, yo, I'm going to ask him about this shot. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm going to ask out about this. You brought on a director. I am going to geek out. As a fellow director, you're like, yo, I'm going to ask him about this shot. I'm going to ask him about |
| 0:24.7 | this shot. Well, I am going to talk to me. I think people, if I, I sometimes think when I'm preparing for this, and you know I do a lot of homework. I have, I have, you should see my desk. It looks like I'm about to write a novel. I was thinking about if I was a listener, I'd want to |
| 0:38.5 | know some behind it, like what's it like to be a director of a TV show? Michael Spiller, |
| 0:42.7 | who we're talking about, is a very big television director, one of the biggest. In fact, |
| 0:47.4 | he recently won the Emmy for directing Modern Family, and he's a very talented guy. |
| 0:53.4 | Wait, wait, hold up. |
| 1:14.2 | Which, for the, like, the final season, he won the Emmy? I don't have the exact Emmy. I want to ask him about some of this stuff. Like, how many shows have you directed now? Is it like, you know, have you lost, can you keep count of the amount of shows you directed? Well, save your Spiller questions. Have them pent up inside you and just have them ready to explode when he comes in the room. |
| 1:30.2 | Okay. How are you? How are you, man? I'm good. I'm good. Did you work out? Are we going to have post-Peloton Donald today? I didn't want to talk about it because I did work out today. And I finished the workout. but I'm now disappointed with said instructor that we talked about. |
| 1:30.9 | Why? |
| 1:28.9 | Well, he was different today. He talked too much. Started singing |
| 1:35.0 | and then also singing off beat. Right. I don't do Peloton to be talked to offbeat. |
| 1:45.7 | I don't appreciate that. |
| 1:46.9 | Was it still the, you know what I love about? |
| 1:48.8 | You know, I still, well, the thing I liked about spinning was when you could get in the groove. |
| 1:53.6 | I'm not, dang, right. |
| 1:56.1 | And so it's important that your spin instructor is like a DJ. |
| 2:03.8 | You know what I mean? |
| 2:04.4 | So he or she should be riding with the beat. |
| 2:07.6 | So the music's going and then you need to be going with the music also. |
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